03-21-2015, 07:22 PM
Poem is written (mostly) in common meter, alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with an ABAB rhyme scheme.
This pattern hods true for the first three stanzas.
The 4th Stanza (S4) is 4 lines of iambic trimeter, with 1 and 3 having an extra unaccented syllable at the end of the line:
glory
inventory
The next stanza S5 has the correct feet number per line, the problem it is written in trochee.
S6 is back in iambic, except L1 and L2 are headless.
S7 L1 and L2 are iambic trimeter, L3 is trochee tetrameter and L4 is iambic.
As this is in mild, I'll stop the line by line there and there is very little use to look at the content until solutions to the meter is found which could drastically change the content.
Welcome to the site,
Dale
This pattern hods true for the first three stanzas.
The 4th Stanza (S4) is 4 lines of iambic trimeter, with 1 and 3 having an extra unaccented syllable at the end of the line:
glory
inventory
The next stanza S5 has the correct feet number per line, the problem it is written in trochee.
S6 is back in iambic, except L1 and L2 are headless.
S7 L1 and L2 are iambic trimeter, L3 is trochee tetrameter and L4 is iambic.
As this is in mild, I'll stop the line by line there and there is very little use to look at the content until solutions to the meter is found which could drastically change the content.
Welcome to the site,
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.